The Committee of Elections of the House of Representatives for the Fortieth Session of Congress
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Credentials of Georgia Member: John A. Wimpy and the Certificate of Election: John H. Christy are referred to the Committee of Elections
State of Tennessee.
To all who shall see these presents, greeting:
I William G. Brownlow, Governor of the State of Tennessee, do hereby certify that at a general election opened and held in said State on the first Tuesday of November, 1868, for the purpose of electing a President and Vice President and Representatives of the State of Tennessee in the Fortieth Congress of the United States, Thomas A. Hamilton, in the county of Shelby, was regularly elected, in accordance with the laws of the State of Tennessee and of the United States, Representative in said Congress for the State at large, and I do, therefore, by virtue of the statute in that case made and provided, commission the said Thomas A. Hamilton, Representative in Congress as aforesaid, during the term and With all the powers, privileges, and emoluments pertaining.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the great seal of the State of Tennessee to be affixed, at the executive department, in the city of Nashville, this 26th day of November, 1868.
WILLIAM G. BROWNLOW.
By the Governor:
A. J. FLETCHER,
Secretary of State.